Apollo was already a nice app so why didn’t reddit just buy apollo and integrate ads into it and just keep the features that made everyone happy.

  • tal@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I would imagine that they would consider purchasing an existing client if they hadn’t already gone out and developed their own.

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      1 year ago

      To be pedantic, they didn’t develop their own. They bought an existing client and then Frankensteined it.

      I’d assume they didn’t see a need for a second one, though.

    • MyNameIsSkittles@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      They never ever made their own. The reddit app was made by a 3rd party dev and they bought it from them and stripped a bunch of the useful features